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Dr. Ralph Brindis is the senior advisor for cardiovascular disease for Northern California Kaiser and a clinical professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Presently Dr. Brindis is serving as the president of the American College of Cardiology. He received his undergrad education at MIT and has a master's degree in public health from UCLA. He graduated  fromEmory Medical School Summa Cum Laude. All of his graduate medical training was performed at UCSF as a resident and chief resident in internal medicine and then as a cardiology fellow.

Dr. Brindis has served previously as the ACC Governor of Northern California and as past president of the California chapter of the ACC. Dr. Brindis is the immediate past Chief Medical Officer and chair of the ACC National Cardiovascular Registry (ACC-NCDR) Management Board now overseeing six cardiovascular national registries assessing cardiac catheterization and angioplasty, implantable defibrillators, carotid stenting, acute coronary syndromes, ambulatory cardiovascular treatment and congenital heart disease. He also is the immediate past chair of the ACC Appropriateness Use Criteria Task Force developing appropriateness criteria for non-invasive testing and coronary revascularization procedures in cardiovascular disease. He has served as chair of the ACC Quality Strategic Directions Committee. Dr. Brindis was the 2007 recipient of the national ACC Distinguished Fellow Award.

Dr. Brindis is active as a volunteer in the AHA having served on the California Affiliate Board and previously as president and member of the Board of the AHA San Francisco Division. Presently he serves on the steering committee of the national AHA Quality of Care and Outcomes Conference. Dr. Brindis sits on the Cardiac Advisory Board of the State of California OSHPD initiative overseeing public reporting of hospital and physician specific CABG mortality. He also served on the National Blue Ribbon Advisory Committee for Cardiac Care for the Veteran's Administration and presently serves on the VA Hospital National CABG Quality Oversight Committee. He has over one hundred publications in national peer reviewed cardiovascular journals.

Dr. Brindis is a practicing invasive cardiologist with an active practice of consultative cardiology. His major interest in process measures and outcomes assessment in cardiovascular care has led to helping the creation and implementation of various Cardiovascular Guidelines for Northern California Kaiser.